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by dmfdmf 8y ago
>...and we have plenty enough wealth to do it. Whose wealth?
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
I was replying to dragonwriter, not you.
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>Otherwise fuck off. Where does the hostility come from? Let us not forget the context -- you posted on MY sub-thread comment where I claimed that the Socialism -vs- Capitalism debate is an ethical question not about economics nor politi
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
> Ask I dunno, anyone if they'd think that LOL, talk about weak. So now your argument is "everyone agrees with ME". That is not an argument and is a logical fallacy. >This is not what socialism is. Please stop referenci
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
It is a very old rationalization that the killing under socialist systems is only due to a bad man and not the system. You need to think, not about the politics, legal structure or the economics of the social system but the underlying ethic
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> so why should anyone care what you think about this? > because it fits your weak ass ideology's account of what it represents. > Learn to read pal > And stop using this cop out to ignore what I've said. Looks like I
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> Socialism and capitalism are modes of production, they're not ethical systems. I never said they were ethical systems. I said they rest on incompatible ethical systems or theories. This is where the debate lies, not in politics no
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I identified the basic principle by which to judge societies, i.e. individual rights, regardless of what the social/political/economic system is called by their advocates or detractors nor the details of their legal manifestation.
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> Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism. This is nothing new. In the last century there was a movement for a "third way" which meant some kind of compromise between Capitalism and Socialism. The goal was to combine Cap
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
The rebuttal; https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2018-6-23-the-pover...
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
I agree that Pragmatism is also fairly common in the sciences. But I don't considered Pragmatism to be a philosophy, it is a rejection of principles on principle so it is a dead-end. What is "shut-up and calculate" if not Pr
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
I think you misunderstood my reply. Your original statement that the truth does not exist was shown to be self-contradictory. Changing your statement to a question does not solve the self-contradiction problem, it just masks it. It is vali
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Changing it to a question with only one possible answer does not solve the problem.
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A "theory" that the moon was made of blue cheese is complete arbitrary non-sense which doesn't need refuting. On the other side -- the moon, orbital mechanics, Newton's laws to design the space craft and get it to the mo
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> Truth does not exist Are you claiming that this is true? If so that is a self contradiction and you have reached a dead-end. Check your work.
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This is Popper's theory and it is false. You can't define what is false without some standard of what is true. It is a misapplication or misrepresentation of Aristotles's law of non-contradiction, i.e. a contradiction proves
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
The UN better be careful about biting the hand that feeds it.
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EFF should be filing FOIA requests tomorrow.
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cf.;Philosophy: Who Needs It. By Ayn Rand. http://fare.tunes.org/liberty/library/pwni.html tldr: Everyone needs a rational philosophy.
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
You should read her book "Philosophy who needs it".
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Have you actually read what she wrote in "The Question of Scholarships" or do you have difficulty understanding the application of a principle? https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1966/01/01/the-qu
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
Popper/Kuhn are both derivatives of Kant and very popular in physics when physicists grasp for a philosophy to justify their epistemology. Mach, also a Kantian, was Einstein's pole star but to Einstein's credit defended reali
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The crisis in physics is due to Kant. As long as physicists are disdainful of philosophy the crisis and deterioration will continue. They are Kantians and don't even know it. Ayn Rand identified Kant's error in his Critique of Pu
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
If ignoring Rand won't make her go away then neither will the smears and misrepresentation of her views such as in this article. But that strategy has been failing for 40 years since before she died. This article claims that "It s
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
>...Starbucks struggled to draw customers in the afternoons. My local Starbucks stops brewing decaf at 11am. I can't drink caffeine in the afternoon and I don't think I am alone.
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
Someone didn't get the memo. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12918362
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Because you can't define pathology (deviation from a norm) without defining the norm. Modern psychologists dodge this question and implicitly assume various generally accepted moral standards and tenents (a form of circular reasoning)
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No. I reject the methodology of the psychologists who do these types of studies.
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I'd take those articles with a huge grain of salt. How could you distinguish a CEO with the courage to make an unpopular choice (e.g. layoff 1/3 of the workforce to save the company) -vs- a psychopath who does it to inflict suffer
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by dmfdmf 8y ago
Logic is based on the principle of non-contradiction (identified by Aristotle). The principle, in all its various forms, is used to guide valid thinking (i.e. truth) because contradictions cannot exist which is its tie to metaphysics.

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